Well, hello there. I hope you are ready to get your mind aligned with the truth of God's word for this day.

And I hope you're in the mood for some word pictures. The Apostle Peter is very good at word pictures.

He just used one in yesterday's episode about how we need to be like babies. Go back and listen to that one.

This one, he's going to call us Rocky or Stones. He's going to liken us to a stone alongside

Jesus. So stick around. We're going to get to that in just a moment. Before we do, though,

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description of this episode as well. All right, friends, before we get into this imagery about us being

stones, let's go to prayer and ask God to illuminate our minds to

understand exactly what he's saying to us. Lord God, that is exactly what we want, is for your

Holy Spirit to open the eyes of our hearts and of our minds to understand your word that is on the

page here before us. Enable our hearts to embrace it, enable us to be changed by it.

You say your word is living and active and changes us.

We ask you to do that, Lord.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Okay, friends, 1st Peter chapter 2 is where we are, and we're looking at verses 4 and 5.

Peter writes this, as you come to him,

okay, now he's talking about Jesus when he says him, as you come to him, a living stone

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